Comment Re:Bad news on both directions. (Score 1) 470
That is what THE INTERNET is for. GINYF, but it is a search engine
That is what THE INTERNET is for. GINYF, but it is a search engine
I've had stories posted and it doesn't even remember that. It seems likely some records are purged after a time.
Every election we hear about one or two cases. This election we have seen literally Millions of cases of election fraud, and everyone says we have toi focus on making sure Trump doesn't win.
What people who make idiotic arguments like yours are oblivious to are the many frauds that ALREADY happen through mail-in votes. Why do you think conservative states are all about mail in voting? Shutins in nursing homes get ballots. People who haven't had a connection to reality in years are sent ballots, which their AIDS complete in their stead and return. No one asks for an ID because it's not needed, right?
Election fraud is all around us. Voter fraud has been repeatedly been shown to be statistically irrelevant. Arizona denying the right to vote to hundreds of thousands of legally registered voters is not.
No, a Beowulf cluster of them!
A friend's Dell that uses bluetooth for everything was hosed beyond repair, because it killed the keyboard and mouse functionality even in the bios. He closed the popup for weeks and was caught by the latest "update" that made the red X mean "yes, please fubar my box."
Telemetry? Canonical, Redhat and others have been collecting telemetry on various issues for years. However, Microsoft is a closed box - so you really believe telemetry data from a corporation that is opaque and has already agreed to aid law enforcement by essentially fishing for untoward activities, is not a big deal? This is literally allowing LEA an open window into your home.
How's that for FUD? Facts, Uncertainty, and a Dubious product.
I like to think I'm an experienced user (I'm 48 and used to be an admin), and I still don't know when or how it happened. Not a good feeling.
Well it fucking happened to me and it sure feels like a data breach. This happened just the other day and they used my contacts folder to send spam (ONE PIECE) to everyone in my address book. This means they had access to every piece fo data saved in my account. If that isn't a data breach, what is?
Remember when you could buy that big fat 12AWG zip speaker cable with the soft, mushy outside for like 33 cents a ft? That was AWESOME cable; wish I still had them.
I recently bought a used (but working) 750W, 7 channel sound system. It put out an "honest" 120WPCH into each of seven channels, but can be switched to use just two, three, four
You may be happy with two inch speakers and shit that "just (barely) works" but many want something better. I'd even say most want better, but can't afford it or can't really find a demonstration that allows them to appreciate the difference. Just look at the multitude of videos on youtube, the deadtree magazines devoted to higher end stuff (tho I never even said Radio Shack sold "higher end" - in fact I said AFFORDABLE higher end, which is more like mid level) and the people willing to still pay dollars to go see movies in theatres -- where they can enjoy the sound without worrying about pissing off the neighbors.
ANd if you build anything nowdays you'll end up using SMD for some of it. That shit is mad difficult to solder, especially if you're over 40. This is why so many "kits" come with parts of pc boards already soldered. But what do you do if you design your own kit? Now you gotta track down a service. It would take less than 5000 worth of machinery at a location to be able to do this. Would they all make a return? Nope - but plenty in select "pilot" locations would net enough return to pay for an expansion in store coverage... just like those cellphone things they've been so stuck on these last years. And a whole lot more of a captured market.
I disagree. Ratshack sold out its base over time because it lots its innovative drive. It became just another competitor to the cheap big box stores and lost because it's not a big box store. Radio Shack once sold some of the highest quality affordable home audio (yes, it did) and look where it went: RCA and other "brand name" CRAP. That's just one example of how it lost focus.
Radio shack has almost unprecedented community presence. They could offer services, like reflow soldering, act as a front end to an affordable pc board manufacture, and even offer walk-in cnc services. There's like 2500 stores in the US; imagine if you could walk in to a store less than 20 miles from the house, hand them a thumb drive, then stand there with the kid and watch while a cnc machine grinds out a part for you. No better way to get kids interested in this stuff than seeing it done and working hands on.
No. gold has value because we make things from it. It's a metal with unique properties, not just beauty. Semiconductors depend on gold. Our civilization (as we know it today) depends on semicondcutors.
BTC is simply a virtual good made from semiconductors. It is three degrees separated from actual value.
It would be great if something like this took off, and nothing ever will if people don't try. But the thought of using a web browser to mine BTC is pretty ridiculous: I ran the java applet 24/7 for weeks on a quad core 2.7ghz machine and generated nary a coin (nor did I see a transaction). I suspect this is simply a proof of concept of a technology that will ultimately end with BTC clients being made illegal because of all the hucksters conning users into planting malware under the guise of "free riches."
Does France have such patdowns in their airports? What about Canada? What about Germany? Belgium? China? Japan?
Why is it we also have not heard of ANY foreign terrorist activities on airliners since all this started? Are the american airport patdowns such a deterrent they can stop a "potential terrorist" from boarding a plane in S Africa with a bomb or a knife?
This needs to stop. I really don't care personally, because I don't fly - but all the other people being displaced from the planes are filling up the trains, and I miss the extra elbow room.
if japan were china, china would have stopped invading the place centuries ago.
Ayup. Just one more example of how corporations as people is a failed idea from the start. If an individual did this that person would be locked up in the pokey for a few years where their earning potential would be substantially more reduced.
Perhaps if we reformed the law so that coporations who so overtly break laws would be punished by, say, having to turn over ALL their profits for the next X months to the government as penalty - I bet far mroe corporations would reconsider such nose-thumbing.
In what world? The pursuit of wealth drives creative ways to make something for nothing. Creativity derives from a culture of creativity (which the japanese have in spades) not from a culture of "work harder and steal the opposition's ideas."
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
